For various reasons, I had to switch from running CenterIM on a FreeBSD
desktop to running it on a Debian GNU/Linux desktop.  Since my FreeBSD
machine used the bg_BG.CP1251 locale (windows-1251 encoding), the CenterIM
logs needed to be transcoded.  However, this was not a simple matter of
running "iconv -f windows-1251 -t UTF-8" on each file - some of the messages
in some of the logs were *already* in UTF-8 :)

Thus, the need was born for a utility that will read a CenterIM log file,
message by message, determine if each message is UTF-8 encoded and, if it
is not, recode it...

...and so recenterlogs was born :)

Its homepage is at http://devel.ringlet.net/textproc/recenterlogs/ and
the source is currently developed in a Gitorious repository:

  git clone git://gitorious.org/recenterlogs/recenterlogs.git

Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>